{"id":63686,"date":"2022-04-20T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63686"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:46:57","slug":"mixed-race-britons-we-are-of-multiple-heritages-claim-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63686","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race Britons \u2013 we are of multiple heritages. Claim them all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race Britons \u2013 we are of multiple heritages. Claim them all<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2022-04-19<\/p>\n

Natalie Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Natalie Morris<\/a> with her father, Tony<\/a> Photograph: Natalie Morris<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With my father\u2019s death I lost the link to my Jamaican lineage, and I needed to address that. It is vital to embrace all sides of yourself<\/em><\/p>\n

Losing a parent is profoundly destabilising. It takes the world as you knew it \u2013 the certainties, the constants, the safety nets \u2013 and whips it out from under you. In addition, as I have discovered over the past two years, there is an extra layer of complexity that comes with being mixed-race and losing the person who connects you to half your heritage.<\/p>\n

My dad, Tony<\/a>, was Black. He was a quite well-known figure here from his work as a journalist with ITV and the BBC, particularly in northern England<\/a>. And in the months after he died one sunny day in August 2020, I began to question everything about myself…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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